On Aug 14, 12:05 am, Chris L Peterson <c...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:41:58 -0700 (PDT), Friar Broccoli

<Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:

There has been an increase in the intelligence of a broad range of
species on earth with time.

That is not obvious. We have almost no idea at all about the
intelligence of animals over most of the period they have existed.
Except for humans, and possibly a handful of other species, it isn't
clear that a "broad range of species" is any more intelligent now than
several hundred million years ago.
_________________________________________________

Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatoryhttp://www.cloudbait.com

You can lose the "except for humans"; we don't actually know that
some of those fossil animals weren't more intelligent than we are,
after all. They just didn't leave any signs of civilization, a hundred
million years later.